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Optrics has been a member since June 15th 2011, and has created 1312 posts from scratch.

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Cyber-attack on Zappos: Information Security Lessons for Enterprises [Part-4]

In the previous three posts in the backdrop of the cyber-attack on Zappos.com, we analyzed the challenges associated with achieving the highest level of information security in enterprises and the causes for security incidents. In part-3 of this series, we discussed how lack of internal controls, access restrictions, centralized management, accountability, strong policies and haphazard style of privileged password management give room for security incidents. Let us now analyze the activity monitoring scenario …

Activity monitoring – scenario today:

Webinar – ‘NetFlow – The De Facto Standard for Traffic Analytics’

With ever-growing enterprise networks, a lot of concerns arise with regard to network usage. Traffic analytics becomes a key aspect in order to ensure:

* Productive usage of the network bandwidth

* Secure network

* Continuous availability of the network 

and a lot of other associated factors. 


The dependence on the network is ever-increasing. This dependence in a way boosts productivity of the organization but the flip-side is that the bandwidth usage for applications other than that concerning business will heavily impact the flow of business activities. Unproductive bandwidth usage leads to bandwidth competition between the different applications using the network. This could even lead to network sluggishness and outage. 

Network Management from a Systems Management Point of View – It ALL Starts with Discovery!

As a product manager of an integrated solution suite, it’s interesting to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between traditional systems management (OS deployment, inventory, software delivery, patching, monitoring) and its major trends (security, virtualization, cloud, efficient data centers) with network management (deployment and configuration, backup/restore, monitoring, traffic analysis, Quality of Service) and networking trends (mobile devices, cloud, virtualization, larger networking demands). There are many similarities between these two IT focus areas and I will “blog” about several aspects as I tie-in and compare systems management with network management over the next year. One similarity that is particularly easy to spot and “leaps off the page” for me relates to discovery. In fact, it ALL starts with discovery.

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Join us for some best practices on making the most of your infrastructure, and learn how IT management is a holistic approach involving not just deep network visibility, but many other areas including log data retention and configuration management. We’ll cover:

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  • Layer 2 discovery and mapping
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  • And more!